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U.S. wheat jumps on short-covering

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-19
U.S. wheat futures climbed nearly three per cent on Wednesday, their biggest daily rise since April, on buying and expectations of domestic demand for wheat as livestock feed, traders said.


Glufosinate tolerance cleared for Enlist soybean stack

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-19
Canadian regulators have approved Dow AgroSciences to build the trait stack even higher in the company's Enlist soybean product line.


Major expansion on hold for Sask. fertilizer plant

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-18
Blaming the rising cost of construction work, Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara International has shelved its plans for expansion at its nitrogen plant in southern Saskatchewan.


U.S. corn ends higher, led by new-crop contracts

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-18
U.S. corn futures rose on Tuesday, led by deferred contracts on technical buying and forecasts for potentially stressful hot weather in late June, traders said.


McMillan: Russia, Ukraine begin winter wheat, barley harvests

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-18
The initial harvests of winter barley and winter wheat have begun across southern Russia and Ukraine and are close to two weeks ahead of normal, encouraged by recent hot and dry weather.


Southeastern Sask. lentil seeding in doubt

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-17
Lentil acreage in southeastern Saskatchewan may be smaller than anticipated, as below-average planting conditions continue to hit the region.


Prairie wheat bids decline for second straight week

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-17
Cash wheat bids across Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Monday, as declines in U.S. wheat futures and attention shifting to relatively favourable new-crop prospects weighed on values.


B.C. NDP names new ag critic

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-17
British Columbia's New Democrats have tapped a social worker turned politician as their new critic for agriculture, ahead of the legislature reconvening next week.


U.S. corn jumps two per cent on soaring cash markets

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-17
Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn futures leaped over two per cent on Monday, posting the biggest one-day advance in nearly a month on soaring cash corn markets and tight stocks of corn.


USDA probe finds GM wheat was 'isolated incident'

Source: Daily News | 2013-06-14
The unapproved genetically modified wheat that was discovered sprouting in Oregon appears to have been "a single isolated incident," U.S. agricultural officials said on Friday in their most detailed description yet of their ongoing...


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